AIM with push is officially available!

[gzillaration]

check it out, it doesnt show up as an update though. I have the free version, just uninstall and reinstall it and it will ask u to use push notification services.


apple desperately needs to make a manager on the lock screen or something cuz its gonna get verrrrry annoying

 

[Diode]

Yea works for me too.

 

[PhxBlue]

Go into your settings and select push services and turn the notification pop up off.

 

[gzillaration]

yea but then if i have multiple apps with push turned on, wouldnt it be nice to have a tiny icon on the lock screen with the badge there too?

 

[swb1192]

Go into your settings and select push services and turn the notification pop up off.

Perfect solution instead of reinstalling.

 

[iamskier]

works perfectly. now ill maybe use it haha

 

[ODog4523]

WTF...not working for me. Still trying to get notifications to work in AP mobile too...

 

[Clete2]

Sweet. I IMed myself and it's within a 2 second delay.

 

[samcraig]

It's nice that AIM is intuitive about push

Meaning - if you set it to log out immediately when closing the app, push turns off (not an option) - if you decide to stay in from 5 min on to the longest amount - it comes back on

 

[MBHockey]

Do you go idle in AIM?

 

[Clete2]

Well, I noticed that, if I sign into AIM on my PC, I don't get the "you're already logged in message" and when I am messaging someone, I get constant notices from my phone.

 

[deimos256]

With this update i think ill actually use it
although doesnt beejive do multiple Im services?

 

[skubish]

WTF...not working for me. Still trying to get notifications to work in AP mobile too...

Both work for me. I have got about 3 push notices from AP today.

 

[Diversion]

Too bad this AIM is horrible with battery life.. I'm seeing 1% drain every few minutes just chillin' out in aim.

What they need for a decent IM app is for it to not maintain a "active" live connection to the internet.. instead use a proxy and just push all incoming and outgoing IMs so that it's just like the Sidekick IM app which hardly uses any battery life by avoiding live connections..

But, Apple's API won't allow for outgoing pushes I bet.. They just need to hurry up and make a nice iChat app, ugh.

 

[MBHockey]

Hmm -- I set my disconnect time for 24 hours after exiting the app.

Why doesn't my screen name go idle after 10 or 20 minutes? Is there way to do this?

 

[Rob Mclovin]

Hmm -- I set my disconnect time for 24 hours after exiting the app.

Why doesn't my screen name go idle after 10 or 20 minutes? Is there way to do this?

No, Mobile AIM doesnt go idle. Ive seen people online for 4 days straight and still say they are available. I just always keep it on Away if i keep it on 24 hours.

 

[BulkHedd]

I was just checking it out and push is working great. Something I found, though, is that it doesn't look like you can cut/copy from received IMs.

 

[MBHockey]

No, Mobile AIM doesnt go idle. Ive seen people online for 4 days straight and still say they are available. I just always keep it on Away if i keep it on 24 hours.

Thank you

 

[Primejimbo]

Can you do the same with YIM?

 

[Synthetickiller]

Works well for me.

If everything has push notification that works this well, I'm impressed.

 

[alansaysstop]

Yeah I'm pretty impressed with this. I've been waiting for this feature to come out since I got my 3G on launch day. I went from a sidekick and always being on aim to just checking who's online every once in awhile. Way to go AOL/Apple!

 

[nikhsub1]

Perfect solution instead of reinstalling.

Uhh, not. My version of AIM had no setting for push until I reinstalled it...

 

[vc454469]

excuse me for asking but what does this push business mean in aim? im assuming its similar to email when the messages come in almost realtime... but ive used aim for 2 years on my iphone and my ims have alawys came in on their own?... maybe im missing something

 

[jclardy]

excuse me for asking but what does this push business mean in aim? im assuming its similar to email when the messages come in almost realtime... but ive used aim for 2 years on my iphone and my ims have alawys came in on their own?... maybe im missing something

It means that you can quit your aim app and do something else, and if someone messages you a push notification pop up will show up allowing you to respond.

 

[skymastr16]

Does anyone know a way around this problem:

the aim free app only allows you to stay logged into the account for 24 hours before it logs you out. If you are logged out after that 24 hours aim will no longer push messages to your iphone.

does anyone know of anything that we can do to ensure we don't get logged out after 24 hours WITHOUT logging in everyday if we don't get a message within that 24 hour period?